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Stripes and with tawuy hairs ; hinder part ferruginous. Abdomen 

 red, thickly clothed with long and short red hairs; tip black. 

 Legs stout, shining ; femora sligiitly incrassated ; tibiae subclavatf, 

 reddish black towards the tips; metatarsi long, slightly dilated; 

 ungues and onychia of moderate size; middle tibia with short stout 

 spurs. Wings blackish brown, rather paler along the hind border. 

 Halteres yellow. Length of the body 5 lines; of the wings 10 

 lines. 



a. Port Natal. From Mr. Stevens' collection. 



East Indies. 



13. DiSCOCEPHALA PrYTANIS. 



' Dasypogon Prytanis, Cat. of Diptera, Ft. 2, 3t)3. 



Forks of the cubital vein and the four externo-medial veins 

 nearly straight ; third externo-medial vein remote frum the fourth. 

 Subanal vein united to the anal very far from the border. 



Genus 9. CABASA. 



Antennarum articulus 2us lo multo brevior ; 3ns linearis, sub- 

 arcuatus, lo et 2o conjunctim multo longior. 



Cabasa, Diptera Saundersiana, Pt. 2, 100. 



Forks of the cubital vein and the four externo-medial veins 

 nearly straight; third externo-medial vein slightly inclined towards 

 the fourth, but at some distance from it on the border; subanal 

 nearly joining the anal on the border. 



1. Cabasa pulchella. 



Niger; thorax ruber ; abdomen mmis viotaceum ; alcefuscce. 



Dasypogon pulchellus, Macq. Dipt. Exot. Suppl. 1. 62, 37, pi. 7, 

 f. 9. 



Tasmania. 



Var. Cabasa rufilhorax, Diptera Saundersiana, Pt. 2, 100, pi. 3, 

 f. 5. 



a. New South Wales. From Mr. Saunders' collection. 

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